Comments on: Jaded Wizard Makes Metaverse Spritual Quest

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:10:14 +0000

Dr Taylor says: I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.

By: Ka

Ka — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:13:42 +0000

My current working theory….second life is a microcosm of RL where universal laws can be magnified due to fewer physical constraints. For example, the universal law of attraction when people and events are brought to us to provide us with balance can be quickly seen in SL if you’re paying attention.

In RL, that which we need to learn is brought to us…keep your mind open and still and it will also be revealed in SL.

By: Sirius Lancaster

Sirius Lancaster — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:44:43 +0000

“Fill your belly and rejoice night and day. Make every day a festival and take your pleasure night and day…
and embrace the child who takes your hand so that the woman with you is delighted. This is man’s only purpose.”
Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Julaybib

Julaybib — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:20:50 +0000

You always find what you are looking forward and Superfluous Pharaoh did. Personally, I think Supe would gain great wisdom and insight from visiting the Church of Burgertime and the Shrine of the Holy Larry Harvey Bun. There he would discover the truth that some people write this kind of stuff about religion, only better!

By: shockwave yareach

shockwave yareach — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:16:40 +0000

Two assumptions everyone makes, RL or SL, while pursuing “The Truth”

Assumption one: that there is a single answer – only one big truth.
Assumption two: that a mere person is capable of understanding said answer.

By: Marshal Banana

Marshal Banana — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:31:28 +0000

All this “find your own way” BS is pretty much directly opposed to progress of any kind. Would you lecture this guy about finding his own path if this article was about fixing someone’s roof? Nah you’d probably recommend he buy a book on roofing or ask some experienced roofer-guy. Remember that.

By: Curious Rousselot

Curious Rousselot — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:32:07 +0000

Super,

Bravo on your quest for enlightenment. I must say I’m not surprised you didn’t find it. It sounds like you were looking for THE Answer when you should have been looking for AN answer.

Enlightenment in SL, just as in RL is not the same for everyone. We each have our own answer. Some find it in religious worship, others in dance. Some in chaos others in peace.

For me (in RL) spiritual bliss come from sailing. Being at the helm of the boat on a run in calm water. The waves gently washing against the hull and not another bit of human construction in sight is a very spiritual experience. At these times I feel as though I have entered a Zen like state. I am one with the boat and the wind and the waves and the whole world.

Does this make sense to you? Probably not unless you have a similar experience.

You must find your own answer.

By: Cargo

Cargo — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:02:34 +0000

The meaning of second life, like the first life, is defined by what you bring to it and contribute. Looking to find others to give you meaning is a fool’s errand. Second Life removes many of the constraints people have in their first lives – if only I wasn’t middle-aged and doughy, if only I had more money, a piece of land, a place of my own to define, no soul-sucking job to occupy my time, what would I do, who would I be? And it turns out a lot of people use it for gambling and sex and time-wasting. SL is like giving you a million dollars and the body of your choice – do you make a conventionally sexy body as you have been sold by years of media bombardment as “what you should want” or do you expressly rebel against that by making a purple fairy or dragon or wolf-lizard-hermaphrodite? Do you spend your million dollars on a barbie malibu dream house and a sports car, or do you make something new? Do you roleplay and make your own fun or do you spend all your time looking for things to complain about? A depressing number of people dump themselves onto second life and find at the end of the day their creativity has been stamped out of them. Try to recover it a little bit. Creativity and what you bring to Second Life, or your first life, provides its meaning.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:32:43 +0000

The Meaning of Second Life can be found at Memory Bazaar:
Ross, 14, 231, 59.

By: Lucy Tornado

Lucy Tornado — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:16:32 +0000

What a great article! I’ve been re-reading the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam for an upcoming discussion in Caledon, and this is like the same thing, (only it doesn’t rhyme). Drink up!